Other forms: garters
A garter is an elastic band worn to hold up a stocking. A lace garter, the bride's garter, garter and stocking.
The Order of the Garter is the oldest and highest order of chivalry in Britain, founded around 1348, and its motto is a rebuke to anybody who thinks ill of it. Throwing the garter is a wedding custom now largely abandoned.
1noungarterAn elastic band worn to hold up a stocking.
“The bride wore a blue garter under her wedding dress.”
garter is a band.
Old French gartier comes from garet, the bend of the knee, from a Celtic root.
Proto-Celtic
*garros — calf, shank
cel-gau
*garrā
Old French
garet
fro-nor
gartier
Middle English
garter
English, today
garter
From Middle English garter, from fro-nor gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from cel-gau garrā, from Proto-Celtic garros (“calf, shank”) (compare kw gar, kw gar,wlm garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA